Return-Path: Received: from kantti.helsinki.fi by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi with smtp (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0rnKlz-00007ZC; Sat, 11 Mar 95 08:35 EET Received: from fiport.funet.fi (fiport.funet.fi [128.214.109.150]) by kantti.helsinki.fi (8.6.10+Emil1.1/8.6.5) with ESMTP id IAA08366 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 08:35:23 +0200 Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (MAILER@SEARN) by FIPORT.FUNET.FI (PMDF V4.3-13 #2494) id <01HO00J9D1U800199C@FIPORT.FUNET.FI>; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 06:31:14 +0200 (EET) Received: from SEARN.SUNET.SE (NJE origin LISTSERV@SEARN) by SEARN.SUNET.SE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 6943; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 07:31:23 +0100 Date: Sat, 11 Mar 1995 01:34:19 -0500 From: Logical Language Group Subject: ji Sender: Lojban list To: Veijo Vilva Reply-to: Logical Language Group Message-id: <01HO00JAMB8600199C@FIPORT.FUNET.FI> X-Envelope-to: veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 560 Lines: 14 Already answered for the most part, but: glyn gowing asks: > je'i is defined in my cmavo list as the /tanru/ afterthought question > connector. Maybe i'm missing something here, but wouldn't ji make > more sense here? The problem is that the sumti logical connectives (selma'o A - considered more important than tanru connectives) need a connective question and got the shorter word. It might have been better to choose a different word and leave the paradigms with one less irregularity but I had a pretty strong Zipfean mentality at the time. lojbab